Taking antibiotics alone isn’t a good idea when knocking out this elusive ailment. Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme...

"Dr. Bozsik estimates that 10% of all people in Europe might carry Borrelia burgdorferi, see his comment in The Lancet 2004; 363:901 (full text after free registration and login); most of these carriers are probably feeling healthy most of their life, i.e. are not feeling chronically ill from their persistent, but luckily for them INACTIVE, latent persistent Borrelia infection!"

An organized collection of photographs and quotations selected from studies finding evidence of alternate forms of various spirochetes, dating from the early 1900's through the present. Written permission to publish this article in LymeRICK from the author, who wants to remain anonymous.

<< The Coalition Against Lyme and Related Borrelioses (CALRB,www.calrb.org) held a symposium today at the State Capitol building in Hartford, Conn., to discuss new DNA sequencing based approaches to Lyme disease testing and diagnosis. The symposium is believed to be the first of its kind devoted strictly to discussing these new and evolving DNA based testing techniques.

“The symposium is a call to action in response to a recent desire expressed by Dr. Paul Mead, chief of epidemiology and surveillance for the CDC’s Lyme disease program, for more reliable and conclusive Lyme disease tests,” said Kevin Moore, president and executive director of CALRB, adding, “This symposium hopefully gets us one step closer to newer, more effective tests.” >>

http://youtu.be/JXHMcJtU-0w is a video about the Halperin 1990 Lyme in ALS patients study. He found 9 of 19 ALS patients had Lyme antibodies in their blood. He found a background rate in the rest of the population that they came from was 10.5% Was 9 of 19 a "coincidence" and if so, what were the odds? (It is like throwing a dice 19 times and getting 9 sixes) except more improbable. Simply put, the more improbably it is, the more likely lyme bacteria are associated with an ALS like illness.

Canada is finally recognizing that Lyme disease has spread beyond US borders into its provinces. Due to efforts of citizens to educate its lawmakers (similar to the US),"that effort reached a crucial milestone this summer, when legislation to promote Lyme prevention and timely diagnosis and treatment passed the House of Commons by unanimous consent".